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The First Signs of Washoe

by: WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Publication date: 1974

Topics: Chimpanzees, American Sign Language, Human-animal communication, American Sign Language, Chimpanzees, Human-animal communication

Publisher: New York : Time-Life Multimedia

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Item Size: 33.8G

Also issued as videocassette

Focuses on a baby chimpanzee named Washoe, who was taught to express herself using American sign language. Also looks at another chimp who can communicate by constructing sentences with a computer